Chevrolet Corvette Z06
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First 2015 Corvette Z06 Fetches $1 Million At Auction, 1964 Ford GT40 Prototype Sells For $7 MillionViknesh Vijayenthiran
General Motors offered up the first retail 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 to the highest bidder during a Barrett-Jackson event at the Collector Car Auction in Palm Beach, Florida over the weekend. The winning bidder, NASCAR team owner and avid Corvette collector Rick Hendrick, ended up bidding $1 million for the car, the same amount he paid for the first 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible and $100k less than what he paid for the first 2014 Corvette Stingray. MUST SEE: 770-Horsepower Lykan Hypersport Set For 2014 Top Marques Monaco Debut All proceeds from the sale will go to support the Karmanos...
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First 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 To Be Auctioned Off For Charity
General Motors is offering up the first retail 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 to the highest bidder, but this isn’t just a blatant money grab. Instead, the automaker will generously donate the proceeds from the sale to the Karmanos Cancer Institute. MUST WATCH: LaFerrari Duels With Ferrari Enzo...
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GM 8-Speed In Corvette Z06 Shifts Faster Than Porsche PDK; Here's How
With the new 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 that was introduced this past week at the Detroit Auto Show, GM raises the threat level to the bragging rights of virtually every other supercar in the world. And while performance numbers are still months away, there were plenty of interesting details...
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2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Video Preview
One of the big stars of this week’s 2014 Detroit Auto Show was the all-new 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06. It’s the range-topper in the seventh-generation Corvette line, at least until a successor to the previous generation’s ZR1 is launched, if one is actually planned. And if...
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New Chevy Corvette Z06 May Spawn 'Z06X' Track-Only Special
The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show this week is already the fastest production Corvette ever, faster than even the C6 ZR1 according to Chevy, but engineers are considering an even faster, stripped-out version designed strictly for track use. “The idea was a...
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2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06: Full Details, Live Photos And Videos
A new King Corvette has arrived, and it definitely gives General Motors [NYSE:GM] some bragging rights at the Detroit Auto Show. With “at least 625 horsepower,” and 635 pound-feet of torque, this top-performance variant of the latest C7 Stingray could shake up the roster of top...
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The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 will be unveiled in Detroit's Cobo Hall January 13.
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2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 LT4 Supercharged V-8 Spied
Could this be the engine that powers the next Corvette Z06?
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2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 To Debut At 2014 Detroit Auto Show
While the world whets its appetite for the official details on the 2015 Ford Mustang, Chevy is aiming to steal a bit of that thunder, announcing the debut of the 2015 Corvette Z06, due next month at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show. The Z06 will be the range-topper in the new Stingray line, for now, at...
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Quanta Reveals 770-Horsepower Corvette Z06 High-Performance Hybrid
Automakers have recently discovered a very good way of helping gearheads over their natural mistrust of hybrid vehicles: Making them incredibly powerful. Next year will see the debuts of McLaren's P1, Ferrari's LaFerrari and Porsche's 918 Spyder--hybrids one and all. While not an official factory...
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Supercharged C7 Corvette Z06/ZR1 Engine Spied?
The new Chevrolet Corvette is a pretty amazing machine. It offers a whole lot of performance for relatively short money. Still, the Corvette King of the past generation was, for many, the Z06 version. The Z06 is the Kentucky-bred badass that offers the best mix of furious power and potent...
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Next Corvette Z06 To Be Called A Z07, Come With 600 HP: Report
Prototypes for the Z06 version of the seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette have just started testing, though they don’t reveal too much detail just yet. However, we hear that the car will break from tradition and no longer be called a Z06 but will use a new “Z07” designation to...
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The 2014 Corvette Stingray isn’t even in the hands of customers yet (though we have seen its first crash), but details are beginning to emerge about the next generation of higher-performance Corvette models. The good news is this: Chevrolet appears to have plans to launch both a Z06 and ZR1 version of the C7 Corvette. According to Motor Trend, the next Z06 will get an updated version of the current car’s normally-aspirated 7.0-liter V-8, with as much as 600 horsepower on tap. That’s quite a jump from the 505 horsepower made by the Z06 in 2013, though the final output is...
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New Corvette Racing C6.R Wide Body To Debut At Sebring
The American Le Mans Series provides some of the best road-racing action on television in the U.S., and it's coming back for the 2012 season this weekend for the 12 Hours of Sebring. Along with its return will be the latest iteration of the Corvette Racing C6.R, now in wide-body format. Based on...
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Corvette Z06 eBay Buyer Thwarted Despite Winning Bid, But Is Dealer Wrong?
In what has become an all too common scenario, yet another eBay sports car buyer has met with a dealer's refusal to sell a car bought in a no-reserve auction. The matter is more complex than it might seem--or than some might make it out to be--and we have the inside story, from both the buyer and...
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Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Ron Fellows ‘Hall of Fame’ Tribute At SEMA
The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Ron Fellows ‘Hall of Fame’ Tribute concept car was built to honor the legendary race car driver and his own Spring Mountain Driving School.
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2012 Corvette Z06 Ron Fellows SEMA/Spring Mountain Special Edition
Ron Fellows, former Corvette Racing driver, gets a special edition 2012 Corvette Z06.
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2012 Corvette Z06 Laps The Nurburgring In 7:22.68: Video
Cutting 20 seconds off the previous best Z06 Nurburgring lap time might sound impossible, but that's exactly what Chevy has done for the 2012 model year.
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There’s a reason why incredibly fast cars have an assortment of strangely styled aerodynamic components stuck to their bodies--to keep them glued to the ground. Travelling at similar speeds to aircraft taking off, cars too can have trouble staying on the ground, which is exactly what happened to this highly modified Chevrolet Corvette Z06 you see here attempting to set a new record at the Texas Mile. The car was modified by tuning firm Hinson Motorsports and developed upwards of 1,428 horsepower--at the wheels! Some of the modifications included a unique rear-mounted twin-turbocharger...
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Commemorative Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Headed To Barrett-Jackson Auction
A very special Corvette Z06 will be up for sale at this month’s Barrett-Jackson vehicle auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. The car is a 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, which was built to commemorate the classic American supercar’s inaugural appearance and victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 50...
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2011 Corvette Z06 Carbon Edition Priced From $90,960
So the regular Corvette Z06 doesn't quite have enough awesome for you, but you're not prepared to step up to the ZR1? That's where the Z06 Carbon Edition comes in, priced today from $90,960. Fully loaded, the price can go as high as $99,925. That's still a good distance from the $112,050 base price...
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Video: Official Chevy Walkaround Of Corvette Z06X, Camaro SSX Track Concepts
If you missed the new Chevrolet Track Car Concepts unveiled at SEMA, you missed some of the most interesting enthusiast-oriented things to come out of the Bowtie in quite some time. But fear not: you'll get a solid walkaround (with some excellent visuals) of both cars in the video below. Check out...
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2010 SEMA Preview: 2011 Corvette Z06X Track Concept
If the Jake Edition Corvette Grand Sport isn't quite as hardcore as you'd hoped (despite wearing the Corvette Racing mascot as its defining element) fear not: Chevrolet has you covered with the 2011 Corvette Z06X Track Car Concept. Analogous to Dodge's Viper ACR-X--and sharing a paint scheme to...
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Corvette Announces Engine Build Experience
Corvette personalizes the build experience with customer visits to the assembly line.
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